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• 10.21.08
  [Podcast] Interview with Jensen Harris Design, Microsoft, Office, Podcast, UX | (0)

  During Explore Design, I had a chance to sit down with Jensen and ask my specific questions face-to-face. Jensen joined Microsoft right out of college and has been with Office team for 10 years now. It's very interesting to get his perspective on Office UI design and Microsoft design culture in general. Below, I broke my interview into two segments (about 10 mins each) to share with you. You can listen to Jensen's answer on the following questions. Office UI specific questions: Tell us a little bit about your role and main responsibilities. ...
• 02.22.08
  [Podcast] Microsoft Canada Development Center Visit Canadian, Podcast | (0)

  Earlier this month, I had a chance to visit the brand new Microsoft Canada Development Center (MCDC). On the day of my visit, it was their second day of moving into their permanent home in Richmond at Greater Vancouver area. Everything is so new and people are exciting to get settled in the new space. We received tons of questions since fall last year when we announced the opening of the center. Parminder Singh, who is the Managing Director of MCDC, kindly offered to chat with me about his vision for the center, its short and long term development ...
• 02.05.08
  [Podcast] Chat with Indi Young on Mental Models Podcast, UX Design | (0)

    At WDN08, I had a chance to sit down with Indi Young, one of the founders at Adaptive Path, to chat about Mental Models. Through her talk "Innovation is Overrated," she first set the stage to understand innovation. Two of the characteristics of great innovations are that innovations come from crafting details and focusing on people. Mental Model is a great illustration of both ideas. In our conversation we chatted about what are mental models, how are they used in the design process, and different ways to collect data to form mental models. If you can’t ...

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